CHICAGO (CBS) — A new non-profit seeks to grow the food and beverage manufacturing industry in and around Chicago.

The Chicagoland Food & Beverage Network is a nonprofit that will seek to bring together the region’s food and beverage companies, focusing on innovation, collaboration and growth. WBBM’s Mike Krauser reports

“We are technically a food and beverage cluster organization. You’re familiar with Hollywood, as an entertainment cluster; food and beverage is such a big business here in town that we actually are the second largest food and beverage cluster in the United States,” said Alan Reed, Executive Director of the Chicagoland Food & Beverage Network.

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